{"id":422491,"date":"2026-01-22T23:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/422491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:19:11","slug":"san-jose-sharks-reassign-igor-chernyshov-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/422491\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks Reassign Igor Chernyshov \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a team announcement, the San Jose Sharks have reassigned forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/chernig01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Igor Chernyshov<\/a> to the AHL\u2019s San Jose Barracuda. The transaction proactively opens a roster spot with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mukhash01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shakir Mukhamadullin<\/a> or the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2026\/01\/san-jose-sharks-acquire-kiefer-sherwood.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent acquisition<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sherwki01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kiefer Sherwood<\/a>, expected to return from injury soon.<\/p>\n<p>Chernyshov, 20, will wrap up his first stint in the NHL. The native of Penza, Russia, was selected by the Sharks with the 33rd overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. At the time, Chernyshov\u2019s draft selection received high marks for being projected as a mid-to-low first-round talent.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s proven that since coming to North America last season. Chernyshov spent the 2024-25 campaign with the OHL\u2019s Saginaw Spirit (with fellow rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/misami01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michael Misa<\/a>), scoring 19 goals and 55 points in only 23 games. Unfortunately, despite the high scoring totals, there was some cause for concern with Chernyshov missing a significant amount of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Chernyshov quickly put those concerns to bed this season. Through his first 25 games of the year with AHL San Jose, Chernyshov scored 11 goals and 23 points with a +5 rating. Despite being in the NHL for the last month, he remains fourth on the team in scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Sharks ran into injury trouble with their forward core, the team recalled Chernyshov for his NHL debut in mid-December. In an impressive start to his career, he scored in more games than he didn\u2019t, finishing his first stint with three goals and 11 points in 15 games, averaging 15:47 of ice time per game.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Chernyshov was relatively sheltered next to phenom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/celebma01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-22_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Macklin Celebrini<\/a> throughout his debut. Of his 11 points, Celebrini either assisted or scored in seven of them. Regardless, given the quick chemistry the two developed, San Jose must feel confident that Chernyshov will have a long-term home with the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a team announcement, the San Jose Sharks have reassigned forward Igor Chernyshov to the AHL\u2019s San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,164,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780,405],"class_list":{"0":"post-422491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-igor-chernyshov","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-sharks","13":"tag-sanjose","14":"tag-sanjosesharks","15":"tag-sharks","16":"tag-transactions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115941314779442629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}